1st script attempt; cygwin; fails "bash: myscript : command not found"

engineerd1 · 11-08-2009, 03:15 PM

Hello, this should be in the newbie^^2 forum, I know.... But I just downloaded cygwin to my xp machine.....Tried my first experimental script and created it one level directly below where cygwin put me by default. The script, named showtwo says....

#!/bin/bash
echo $1
echo $2

But bash apparently can't find it.....

The name of the script is showtwo, but I also tried naming it showtwo.sh; no dice.

AuroraZero · 11-08-2009, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by engineerd1

Hello, this should be in the newbie^^2 forum, I know.... But I just downloaded cygwin to my xp machine.....Tried my first experimental script and created it one level directly below where cygwin put me by default. The script, named showtwo says....

#!/bin/bash
echo $1
echo $2

But bash apparently can't find it.....

The name of the script is showtwo, but I also tried naming it showtwo.sh; no dice.

I am a little confused here. Is this a Windows Xp machine or a Linux Box?

smeezekitty · 11-08-2009, 03:44 PM

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I am a little confused here. Is this a Windows Xp machine or a Linux Box?

its windows XP.
but what the OP does not understand is that you need to call programs in the local directory with ./

engineerd1 · 11-08-2009, 03:44 PM

its an xp machine

engineerd1 · 11-08-2009, 03:54 PM

right. I did not know (forgot since last used unix 25 years ago)that...

Furthermore, if I am a level above where the script is, I invoke by...

./oneleveldowndir/showtwo

and so on....

so the natural followup is... what do I do to make a script invokable without specifying the full pathname? Or please refer to appropriate tutorial so I don't waste more time here....

smeezekitty · 11-08-2009, 03:56 PM

you could put it in your path enviroment.

Tinkster · 11-08-2009, 03:56 PM

It's a (sane!) default for unix/linux shells not to have
the current working directory in the path. Either use the full
path, or a relative path to execute the script.

./script or /home/username/script

Cheers,
Tink

Tinkster · 11-08-2009, 03:58 PM

You could edit your ~/.bashrc and modify the PATH variable

export PATH=${PATH}:.

Don't do that for root, though, if you get to a real Unixy
kind of box. It's a security risk.

smeezekitty · 11-08-2009, 04:03 PM

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You could edit your ~/.bashrc and modify the PATH variable

export PATH=${PATH}:.

thanks for the tip! i will go do that in my linux box (as root of cource).